Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!dali.cs.montana.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!mips!atha!aupair.cs.athabascau.ca!rwa From: rwa@cs.athabascau.ca (Ross Alexander) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Compilers and efficiency Message-ID: Date: 10 May 91 17:11:53 GMT References: <9782@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <653@ctycal.UUCP> <28297C23.6984@tct.com> <12164@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> Organization: Athabasca University Lines: 10 hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes: [much chat about whether Herman's apps are typical elided] >How much of the driving public uses the low gears of automatic transmissions? All of them, Herman. Whenever they accelerate from a stop. That's what an automatic transmission is for. -- Ross Alexander rwa@cs.athabascau.ca (403) 675 6311 ve6pdq `You were s'posed to laugh!' -- Zippy